New Stars

New Stars

adamjr · March 4, 2026 · Strategy, 4X, Grand Strategy, Space, Singleplayer

Buy New Stars from Steam at $19.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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6 user reviews67% · 6
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$19.99
lowest tracked $9.99
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New Stars price by region

New Stars costs £16.99 in the United Kingdom, €19.45 in Europe (EUR), $19.99 in the United States, $19.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$25.99 in Canada, NZ$28.99 in New Zealand, A$29.50 in Australia, R$59.99 in Brazil and zł91.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest New Stars offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £16.99 £16.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €19.45 €19.45 — 1
United Statesyour region $19.99 $19.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $19.99 $19.99 — 1
Canada CA$25.99 CA$25.99 — 1
New Zealand NZ$28.99 NZ$28.99 — 1
Australia A$29.50 A$29.50 — 1
Brazil R$59.99 R$59.99 — 1
Poland zł91.99 zł91.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About New Stars

New Stars is a 4X strategy game, on a galactic scale. Explore new worlds, build mega-structures, and found prosperous interstellar colonies. Go head-to-head with alien empires and build the greatest empire to survive the test of time, or be the last remaining in the galaxy to succeed.
Customize your empire from world preferences, eight different ideologies with their own bonuses, hundreds of empire icons and more. Customize a unique galaxy based on your preferences. There are five different galaxy sizes to choose from.

Unique empires, species, and clans exist within a customizable and procedurally generated galaxy with limitless possibilities, and thousands of unique planets, stars and worlds. Some planets have valuable resources that can be collected.Explore star systems and discover new secrets of the galaxy, and find clues to your lost home. Discoveries such as white dwarfs, ancient ruins, lost ships, and much more can be found within the abyss. Some planets have hidden features that increase their value.

Expand your empire across new stars to new frontiers, and build strong colonies that will power your galactic economy. Collect natural resources from planets and stars using starhubs. Beware of pesky space pirates that may plunder your resources for their own gain.

Merge ships into one fleet, and combine them against your adversaries. Defend against attacks by upgrading starbases, or fortifying your colonies. Research new ship types or advanced military capabilities to get an edge over your alien foes.
Declare wars, trade resources, make agreements, declare friendships, share intel, forge galactic unions, and much more. Some empires may be openly hostile or require appeasing, others may be cooperative, and some may be integrated into your empire.
Construct military starship presets with unique turrets. Unlock larger ships and more powerful turrets to allow your empire to get an edge in interstellar warfare.

There is much to do in New Stars and you choose how to play.

New Stars — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player, Multiplayer, Cross-platform multiplayer
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Dec 20, 2023
This game has some pretty high potential, but I can't say it's for me at this time. I'm sceptical as to whether much if any QA testing has been done prior to release, as the first issues were apparent on opening the game. So far, in less than 5 minutes of gameplay, I've had the two issues: - I cannot adjust the screen resolution so I'm playing the game at 1440p but it is only rendering at 480/720p causing lots of artifacts - The UI is very vague and non-descript, I can't always tell what buttons do from their appearance. Otherwise, the game looks like it has great potential and is possibly going to be a heavy hitter, but in it's current state I cannot really play it due to the poor visual quality, and I cannot recommend it for these reasons. It is early access and issues are to be expected, so I might return to this game in future, maybe after full release.
32 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 22, 2023
Visual quality is very poor and has a long way to go before it is ready to compete against other games similar to it. The functionality of the game is clunky and in comparison to Stellaris or MoO2, they game leaves a lot to be desired. From the basic navigation of the stars require WASD to move the universe rather than with the mouse is extremely clunky. Space combat is completely automated into the summary screen and you can't even watch the battle. Getting from overlay mode into actual star mode is very clunky as well. In my opinion, this game needs another year or so of hardcore development to be anywhere near ready.
22 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 23, 2023
Well I have to agree that this game is very interesting and has a great potential with a fun gameplay, and I believe there is still a lot to improve, polish and could be very great in the future with good development. I think that this game is recommendable and I'd still play this game sometime when I get bored from other games and I find it playable even in this state.
13 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 22, 2026
An Interesting Stellaris Light, that is fun in it's own way. needs some work on the UI (popups on things that don't have descriptions IE (what difficulty Means, features on planets, maybe a way to see what planets are in a system without going into it) Dilpomace is stange as the aliens will want to trade and then after a bit they will denounce you.
11 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 10, 2026
I have 9 hours into the game and I would recommend this game. Its got good exploration, expansion, exploit and exterminate mechanics. It is also what I would call an RTS that you can pause to setup orders for your planets and navies. I'm neutral about combat. It's automatic and a pop up comes up so you watch hit point numbers decrease and the only thing you can control is retreat. There maybe more, but I didn't see it. So far I haven't discovered how to increase the amount of Power I recieved each month, but that's only because I may not have enough time in the game to find out how too. Now for the negatives. It is extremely hard to choose between System screen, ships and system map. I had to have the system in the middle of the screen and slowly move the cursor until the item I wanted could be selected. If the system you wanted was not in the middle I was basically unable to select it. Even it there were no ships there. I also had problems selecting systems for my ships. I had to have the system I wanted near the middle of the screen. Also the cursor was to large and covered the text when you hovered over the resources info in the upper left of the screen. Overall it's a 3 s…
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